Connecticut · Nonprofit
GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION
GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,683 to it, the largest being SPIDACARES INC ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $3k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $357k
What Greater Fairfield County Foundation does
Mission
The primary mission of the Greater Fairfield County Foundation incorporated is to provideschloarships and engage and community service.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Awarded over $45K in scholarships. 8 scholarships in the amount of $4k were granted to graduating high school students based in Fairfield County, Connecticut, who matriculated as full-time college students in 4-year Colleges. 14 $1500 scholarships were awarded to past recipients to provide continued financial support for their academic pursuits. We hosted a Black Wellness Fair in Fairfield County that reached 100s of Fairfield county residents and provided information and resources about maintaining a healthy lifestyle. We continued our partnership with middle schools in Bridgeport to provide programming for young women, exposing them to important character-building themes and civic engagement.
$93,902 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $93,902.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $234k to $373k (+60%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 21% · 2019 20% · 2023 7% · 2026 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
148% of GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jacqueline Woods
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $12k → $57k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 28% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 413 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 413 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Government funding GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$27k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION?
- GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,683 to it, the largest being SPIDACARES INC ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $144,683 in grants to GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION?
- SPIDACARES INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing